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Two Volumes. Titles in green and red. Illustrated with gravure plates from photographs, drawings and paintings; tissue guards, each page in decorative frame. 8½x6, original gilt-decorated and printed ivory cloth, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. The Pawnee Edition, printed by the Knickerbocker Press of New Rochelle.

Sumptuous edition of Irving's account of exploration and the fur-trade from the Rockies west, 1832-1835, including the first record of the trapping expedition over the Sierras to California. The attractive bindings and text decorations were designed by Margaret Armstrong.